“Ever since Steve Bannon was demoted, and drama started playing out between Bannon and Jared Kushner and the firing of Comey and "Is he going to get impeached?" we have been trapped in a classic Survivor reality TV show, like, "Who's going to get voted off the island?" And this has every single news show enjoying ratings never seen before. And it physically pains them to talk about the stakes of this administration, whether it's health care or climate change or the deregulation of the financial sector or social security. None of it can compete with this reality show.” RealityCarePainEnjoySecurityDramaClimate ChangeFinancialHealth CareClassicSurvivorReality Shows Author:Naomi Klein
“The problem of giving health care to everybody cannot be solved so long as we're spending huge sums of money for war. Already we have a very wasteful healthcare system, the most wasteful healthcare system in the world. I mean, we spend the most money and still have 40 million people without insurance. Compare us to Cuba. Cuba is our enemy, run by a dictator, Fidel Castro. But people in Cuba get health care at least equal to that of the United States - with very scarce resources. So I think this issue is the most important domestic issue.” PeopleThinkingWorldGivingMeanLongImportantWarProblemCareRunningEnemyEqualHealth CareCompareHealthcareDictatorCastro Author:Howard Zinn
“I think basic disease care access and basic access to health care is a human right. If we need a constitutional amendment to put it in the Bill of Rights, then that's what we ought to do. Nobody with a conscience would leave the victim of a shark attack to bleed while we figure out whether or not they could pay for care. That tells us that at some level, health care access is a basic human right. Our system should be aligned so that our policies match our morality. Then within that system where everybody has access, we need to incentivize prevention, both for the patient and the provider.” ThinkingCarePolicyMoralityConscienceVictimPatientHealth CareBill Of Rights Author:David Katz
“I do not think it is going to be constructive to repeal a law that, at this point, is so interwoven in our health care system, and then hope that, over the next two years, we will come up with some kind of replacement.” ThinkingKindCareHealth Care Author:Susan Collins
“The United States must join the rest of the industrialized world, guarantee health care to all people as a right.” PeopleWorldCareHealth Care Author:Bernie Sanders
“All that I can say is that we are spending far more per capita than people in any other country, and our health care outcomes are in many cases worse in terms of life expectancy, infant mortality and so forth.” PeopleCountryCareTermHealth CareMortalityInfant Author:Bernie Sanders
“If we greatly expanded primary health care, lower the cost of prescription drugs, we take a giant step forward in lowering health care costs in America.” CareDrugHealth Care Author:Bernie Sanders
“I think there were two criticisms you can make of Donald Trump`s involvement in the Health Care Bill. First of all, there were times when he wasn`t being helpful. Secondly, there were times when he was trying to be helpful. I`m not sure which one did more damage.” ThinkingTryingCareCriticismHealth CareNot SureHelpfulInvolvement Author:Barney Frank
“I can tell you about health care and also about the financial reform bill. The Barack Obama, the President personally and his administration officials at his direction were very much involved.” CarePresidentFinancialBarackHealth Care Author:Barney Frank
“Can I say one other thing that`s very important? I`m indebted to Donald Trump for a long time, we`ve had this problem that people disliked government. And the health care bill has shown reminded people and Donald Trump has shown people there is something a lot worse than government. It`s not government. That as bad as they might have thought the government was on health care, it`s now created people that the absence of government healthcare is even worse.” PeopleLongImportantProblemCareAbsenceHealth CareHealthcare Author:Barney Frank
“We need to have more taxes, not less, and we need the taxes we have, certainly, to provide services - for defense and education and health care. We should not cut money here in order to cut taxes.” CareCuttingTaxesHealth Care Author:Michael Bloomberg
“Ever since Marx, leftists have known that the simplest way to controlling a country is via education, the news industry, and health care. If you, as a leader or as a member of a leadership organization can succeed in taking over those three things where only kids, young people, only learn what you want them to learn, they learn how horrible freedom is, how unfair capitalism is, how mean-spirited, all of this, how wonderful equality and egalitarian is. Whenever there is a communist invasion or revolution, the news outlets are the first things seized and then the schools and then health care.” PeopleCountryCareKidsSchoolLeaderWonderfulRevolutionSucceedCapitalismHorribleHealth CareCommunistUnfair Author:Rush Limbaugh
“With health care, once you set yourself up as the source for people's health care, not insurance, you own them. That way you have total control over how they must live in order to qualify for health care. And that's what Marxists want. Marxists and leftists do not trust individuals. They have contempt individuals won't do the right thing, the right thing being defined by what Marxists want.” CareIndividualHealth CareRight ThingContemptMarxist Author:Rush Limbaugh
“America is supposed to be the richest and most powerful nation and we don't have health care for everybody.” CarePowerfulHealth CareMost Powerful Author:Don King
“We have to remember, lefts are the people who created unsustainable national debt, unsustainable health insurance, health care, unsustainable college tuition and debt, unsustainable social welfare programs. Everything the left creates is unsustainable, it can't go on. Everything they create will eventually implode because it can't work as they designed it. Nothing they do is sustainable. That's the great irony. But they claim to know how to sustain life as we know it.” PeopleCareRememberCollegeProgramHealth CareIronyWelfareSocial Welfare Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I often hear that it's unfair that athletes should make what they make versus teachers, because who's more important. But that's not how the market works. Markets don't sign things. You know what you're worth is what somebody will pay you. It's not some arbitrary - the purpose of a company is not to create jobs and health care. That's not why they exist. And it's not to create fairness or any of that. That's not why people form businesses and try to sell a service or a product.” PeopleTryingImportantCarePurposeTeacherAthleteHealth CareFairnessUnfair Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The minute you hear subsidies, I don't care what, if it's health care, buying cars, the minute you hear subsidies, you have to understand, whatever's going on here, it isn't market forces.” CareCarHealth CareWhat If Author:Rush Limbaugh
“In the U.S., philanthropic support from entrepreneurs is tightly integrated into the fabric of society, whether it's health care, medical research, or education. Now, slowly, China will know this.” CareSupportEntrepreneurMedicalHealth CareIntegratedPhilanthropic Author:Li Ka-shing
“When you buy a meal and you pay a fair price for it, are you doing this to ensure that the employees get health care? When you walk into Mickey D's and you buy a Big Mac, do you ask them, "By the way, is this thing costing enough so that you get health care here? By the way, is this Big Mac costing enough so that you get a pension here?" Do you think any of that when you go buy a Big Mac? No. You want it to be as cheap as it can be. That's why you're there.” ThinkingEnoughCareHealth CareEmployeePension Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Donald Trump and Eddie Gillespie and the Republicans in the Commonwealth of Virginia are the No. 1 impediment to Medicaid expansion. Voters understand that, and so, when they go to the polls, there's a lot of health care voters in Virginia. There's a lot of health care voters in New Jersey. And when you have a party whose belief is that health care is a privilege for a few, like the Republicans believe, that has consequences.” BelieveCareBeliefPartyRepublicanConsequenceHealth Care Author:Thomas Perez
“I firmly believe that the Democrats' message of inclusion and opportunity resonates everywhere. When we talk about health care as a right and not a privilege, and the impact of the repeal efforts, that resonates everywhere, because everybody in every ZIP code has benefited in one way, shape or form, and frankly, in terms of under-performance, I think we have all too frequently tended to take some of our core constituencies for granted.” ThinkingBelieveCareOpportunityTermEffortGrantedHealth CareCodeInclusion Author:Thomas Perez
“I take running for president and being president really seriously. It's a - maybe the toughest job in the world, right? And I knew that there was unfinished business from the successful two terms of President Obama, whom I had served, but that we needed to go further on the economy, on health care, and so much else.” WorldCareRunningPresidentTermEconomySuccessfulHealth CarePresident Obama Author:Hillary Clinton
“If we look at governments around the world, we see that the higher the women's percentage is in parliament, the more funding there is for education and for health care as compared to buying arms, for example.” WorldCareHealth Care Author:Swanee Hunt
“I think that we need to be more aware of how we are all interconnected, and how we actually need to invest in safety nets and in education, and that we need to come to the realization that health care is a human right and try to provide that for people.” PeopleThinkingTryingCareSafetyRealizationHealth CareSafety Net Author:Jesmyn Ward
“Faster economic growth helps raise the economy which raises revenues. And that helps us tackle the deficit. There's two things we've got to do to get rid of this debt. Deal with entitlements, that's why we're frustrated health care reform hasn't passed the senate yet.” HelpingCareGrowthEconomyEconomicHealth CareFrustratedEconomic GrowthEntitlementHealth Care Reform Author:Paul Ryan
“We all focus on health care and diabetes and heart disease but there's all sorts of things like the simple fact that, you know, heavier people, transportation is more, so there's more spent on gasoline, more on jet fuel, people have had to change the size of doorways, the size of chairs on airplanes and at sports stadiums, so there's a lot of hidden costs as well to the increasing girth of Americans.” PeopleHeartCareSportsSimpleFocusHealth CareAirplaneJetTransportationDiabetesHeart Disease Author:Ezekiel Emanuel
“When we get this health care done, America, we're going to be able to have regulations on how heavy you can be. And we're going to be able to set up various tax penalties, for example, if you weigh more than we think you should or we just may not let you get on that airplane because your carbon footprint, you're gonna waste so much jet fuel, we may not let you get on that bus, we may not let you drive your car, we may not build a bigger doorway for you to get through, may not give you a bigger toilet.'” ThinkingGivingDoneCareCarTaxesVariousHealth CareBusAirplaneJetFootprint Author:Rush Limbaugh
“This is what the Democrats are fighting for. They're fighting for you not to have a job and still have health care so you can pursue your entrepreneurial risk of writing, painting, taking pictures. It's just such a pain in the rear end to have to have a job. It's so damn mean of this country to require people to have a job. It stifles people. It stifles creativity and economic growth to require people to have a job, to have health care. What a country. Man, are we horribly rotten mean to people.” PeopleMenWritingMeanCountryCarePainFightingGrowthCreativityRiskEconomicPaintingDemocratHealth CareEconomic GrowthEntrepreneurialTaking Pictures Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Democrats are fighting for people to be able to quit work while the rest of us pay for their health care while they go out and be artists and photographers and tend to bipolar kids with asthma or what have you, and we're going to pay for this.” PeopleCareKidsArtistFightingDemocratPhotographerQuittingHealth CareBipolarAsthma Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Obama came in and said he was going turn everything around, and you can't. Give the guy a break. But I question a lot of what's happening. It's certainly going to reflect in my vote, but who else is there? It's a horrible time, because people vote party lines instead of what's good for the country. I think the whole health care issue turned so ugly, because of party lines, and that's not what that's supposed to be about.” PeopleThinkingGivingCountryCareGuyPartyBreakVoteUglyHorribleHealth Care Author:Joan Rivers
“I think we obviously need health care. Of course we need health care, but I think that it's gone too far the other way, and I don't understand it. It's gotten so complicated. The minute they made a deal with the drug companies, you know something isn't kosher here.” ThinkingCareDrugComplicatedHealth Care Author:Joan Rivers
“I hope the new health care exchanges created under the Affordable Care Act will provide some help.” HelpingCareHealth CareAffordable Author:Laurence Kotlikoff
“The country has large unfunded liabilities - social security, health care, and there will have to be some adjustments to these problems. What is scary though is how much worse things have gotten in the last eight years, and the Iraq war is one of the main factors.” WarCountryProblemCareSecurityScaryHealth CareIraq WarLiability Author:Joseph Stiglitz
“The national debt will have increased by approximately 50% in just eight years! We will have created a new unfunded entitlement - disability and health care benefits for the huge number of disabled veterans returning from the Iraq war.” WarCareHealth CareDisabilityVeteranEntitlementIraq War Author:Joseph Stiglitz
“The German health care system is unique in its attempt to combine competition among sickness funds on the one hand and a universal coverage plan on the other hand. Most health care systems are either one or the other, so you either have private insurance and competition but not everyone is covered for everything, or you have a single-payer system. So the ideal types are like the American system on the one hand or the Scandinavian or U.K. systems on the other end. Germany tries to combine the advantages.” TryingCareUniqueCompetitionHealth CareSicknessFund Author:Karl Lauterbach
“The quality of health care in Germany is not as good as people sometimes believe it to be. We have problems with chronic diseases. The German system allows too many hospitals and specialists to treat chronic diseases. We do not have enough volume in many institutions to deliver good quality, and we do have fairly strict separations ... between primary physicians, office specialists and hospital specialists. But I think the quality problems can be solved in the next couple of years, and we have made major progress in diabetes, coronary artery disease and pulmonary disease care.” PeopleThinkingBelieveSometimesEnoughProblemCareQualityProgressCoupleOfficeSeparationHealth CareDiabetes Author:Karl Lauterbach
“I think from an economics point of view, it is important that the money that is spent for health care is well spent - what is the cost-effectiveness of the money that is used? - because if the money is well spent, many people benefit from the system, and it is also a good market for finding employment. I do not see a reason why we should limit ourselves when it comes to very qualified and humane employment opportunities if there is no waste and if there is medical need.” PeopleThinkingImportantReasonCareOpportunityPoint Of ViewMedicalHealth Care Author:Karl Lauterbach
“In comparison to the U.S. health care system, the German system is clearly better, because the German health care system works for everyone who needs care, ... costs little money, and it's not a system about which you have to worry all the time. I think that for us the risk is that the private system undermines the solidarity principle. If that is fixed and we concentrate a little bit on better competition and more research, I think the German health care system is a nice third way between a for-profit system on the one hand and, let's say, a single-payer system on the other hand.” ThinkingCareWorryNiceRiskCompetitionHealth CareComparisonSolidarity Author:Karl Lauterbach
“The good things at the U.S. health care system are that we have a well-trained labor force, particularly physicians; I don't think any nation trains doctors better. We have the latest technology, simply because we throw so much money at it. We are really technology-hungry in this country. That's a good thing. Our system more treats patients like customers, which is a good thing; that it's very customer-friendly. And it's very innovative, both in the products we use, in the techniques we use and the organizational structures we use. Those are all very good things, highly competitive.” ThinkingCountryCareTechnologyLaborTrainGood ThingsPatientVery GoodHealth CareInnovativeOrganizational Author:Uwe Reinhardt
“The bad things the U.S. health care system are that our financing of health care is really a moral morass in the sense that it signals to the doctors that human beings have different values depending on their income status. For example, in New Jersey, the Medicaid program pays a pediatrician $30 to see a poor child on Medicaid. But the same legislators, through their commercial insurance, pay the same pediatrician $100 to $120 to see their child. How do physicians react to it? If you phone around practices in Princeton, Plainsboro, Hamilton - none of them would see Medicaid kids.” ChildrenDifferentCareKidsValuesPoorMoralProgramHealth CareFinancing Author:Uwe Reinhardt
“We Americans, or half of Americans, think health care is a commodity. Other countries view health care as a social service that should be collectively financed and available to everyone on equal terms. My wife and I just interviewed the German minister of health, and it was an exhilarating experience, because it was a totally different language. It was obviously important that everyone should have the same deal in health care.” ThinkingImportantDifferentCountryCareLanguageTermWifeEqualMy WifeHealth CareCommodityExhilaratingSocial Service Author:Uwe Reinhardt
“The American people are not ready for the idea that everyone has at least a moral right to good, timely health care. They do agree they have a moral right, in critical cases, to have anything done to save their life, but they don't believe that anyone has a right not to fall that sick to begin with. So if you ask me, "Are we ever succumbing to some notions of solidarity as a nation?," I would say, "Not at all." I would describe us as a group of people who share a geography. That's a better description of Americans than that we're a real nation with a sense of solidarity.” PeopleBelieveRealDoneCareFallMoralShareSickAgreeHealth CareAsk MeGood TimesSolidarityGeographyNot Ready Author:Uwe Reinhardt
“If you want to look at a purely socialized health care, you would have to go to the United States, where we have it. In particular, that's the system we reserve for our veterans. So if I hear politicians run down socialized medicine - and I have done that before the Congress - I say: Do you hate your veterans? Why do you reserve purely socialized medicine - there's only the U.S. and Cuba that have that - for the veterans? So getting the terms right would be very, very helpful in our national conversation on health reform.” DoneCareRunningHateTermPoliticianHealth CareHelpfulVeteranHate You Author:Uwe Reinhardt
“Let's get put in place a better health care system the American people deserve.” PeopleCareDeserveHealth Care Author:Jim Jordan
“When a health policy analyst went to heaven, he asked God the same question: 'Will America ever have a single-payer system?' And God said, 'Absolutely. Just not in my lifetime.' I'm afraid that little story is true. Americans just are not prepared to let government be responsible for all of their health care.” CareHeavenPolicyLetting GoResponsibleLifetimeHealth CareBeing Responsible Author:Stuart Altman
“The bad things are that our financing of health care is really a moral morass. It is a moral morass in the sense that it signals to the doctors and hospitals that human beings have different values depending on their income status.” DifferentCareValuesMoralHealth CareFinancing Author:Uwe Reinhardt
“We have a nation where the elite thinks it's OK to advocate a war and send the lower-income people to do the fighting. It's natural for such a people to think that the lower-income people should also have a worse health care experience. And the other countries are not there - I always say, not there yet. I tell the Germans and the Swiss, "You're not there yet, but if you're not very, very careful, if we Americans come over there and rearrange ... your health care system, you will be just like us."” PeopleThinkingWarCountryCareFightingNaturalCarefulHealth Care Author:Uwe Reinhardt
“Everybody should have health care, on the one hand. But on the other hand, if you ask Americans, "Are you willing to pay for it?," they say no. So I've never been able to understand this contradiction.” CareHealth CareContradiction Author:Uwe Reinhardt
“There are libertarian values which say private property is the overarching value, the sanctity thereof, and there are egalitarians who say health care should be shared and so on. That's fair enough.” EnoughCareValuesPropertyLibertarianHealth CarePrivate Property Author:Uwe Reinhardt